Genesis 30:8
For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- pro quo ait Rachel : Comparavit me Deus cum sorore mea, et invalui : vocavitque eum Nephthali.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ῥαχήλ Συνεβάλετό μοι ὁ θεός, καὶ συνανεστράφην τῇ ἀδελφῇ μου καὶ ἠδυνάσθην· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Νεφθαλεί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶר רָחֵ֗ל נַפְתּוּלֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי עִם אֲחֹתִ֖י גַּם יָכֹ֑לְתִּי וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ נַפְתָּלִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Compared me, &c. As Lia treacherously got my husband, so I have craftily surmounted the difficulties of barrenness; I have struggled earnestly, and have got the victory. Patal, means to act with cunning. (Psalm xvii. 27.) (Calmet)
Nephtali, "a crafty wrestler." (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.